The verdict was swift and harsh. "We the jury find the defendant Wayne
Bertram Williams guilty on count number one... guilty on count number
two," said Foreman Sandra Laney, a cable television worker in Atlanta,
after the jury had deliberated only eleven hours. Williams, who had
managed his own radio station at age 16 and gone on to become a failed
music promoter and freelance photographer, was, at 23, a convicted
killer. Surrounded by four sheriffs deputies who have guarded him since
the trial began last December, Williams stared silently as Judge
Clarence Cooper...